The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning,  Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading from his old  worn-out Bible. His grandson who wanted to be just like him tried to  imitate  him in any way he could. 

  One day the grandson asked, "Papa, I try to read the Bible just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do  understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What  good does reading the Bible do?" The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and said, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring back a basket of water." 

  The boy did as he was told, even though all the water leaked out before he could get back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You will have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.  

  This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he  returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was "impossible to carry water in a basket," and he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket  of water. You can do this. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went  out the door to watch the boy try again. 

  At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got far at all. The boy scooped the water and ran  hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty.  Out of breath, he said, "See Papa, it's useless!"    

  "So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."  The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket  looked different. Instead of a dirty old coal basket, it was clean.  

  "Son, that's what happens when you read the Bible. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, it will change you from the inside out.  That is the work of God in our lives - to change us from the inside out and to slowly transform us into the image  of His son. 

  Take time to read a portion of God's word each day

  Thought for Today: Gods  Love is like the ocean, you can see its beginnings but not its end.

What is the most powerful word
in the English language?

Well, SHIT, of course!

Shit is easily the most powerful word in the
English language. You can be shit faced,
shit out of luck, or have shit for brains.

With a little effort, you can get your shit

together, find a place for your shit
or decide to shit or get off the pot.
You can smoke shit,
 buy shit,

sell shit,

lose shit,

find shit,

forget shit,

and tell others to eat shit and die.
Some people know their shit
while others can't tell
the difference
between shit and cineole.

There are lucky shits,
dumb shits, crazy shits, and sweet shits.
There is bull shit, chicken shit, and horse shit.

You can throw shit, sling shit,
catch shit, or duck when shit hits the fan.
You can give a shit
or serve shit on a shingle.

You can find yourself in deep shit,
or be happier than a pig in shit.

Some days are colder than shit,
some days are hotter than shit,
and some days are just plain shitty.
Some music sounds like shit, things can look like shit,
and there are times when you feel like shit.

You can have too much shit,
the right shit, the wrong shit or
a lot of weird shit.

You can carry shit,
have a mountain of shit, or find
yourself up shit creek
without a paddle.
Sometimes everything you touch turns to shit
and other times you swim in a lake of shit and come
out smelling like a rose.

And remember, once you know your shit, you don't
need to know anything else!

Two lawyers had been stranded on a desert island for several months. The only other thing on the island was a tall coconut tree, which provided them their food.

Each day one of the lawyers would climb to the top of the tree to see if he could see a rescue boat coming.

One day, the lawyer yelled down from the tree, "WOW, I can't believe my eyes. There is a girl out there floating in our direction."

The lawyer on the ground was most skeptical and said. "I think you're hallucinating and you've finally lost your mind."

But within a few minutes, up to the beach floated a naked blond woman, face up and totally unconscious.

The two lawyers went over to her, dragged her up on the beach, and discovered, yes, she was alive.

One said the other, "You know, we've been on this island for months now without a woman. It's been such a long time. Do you think we should, ......you know, ... screw her?"

The second lawyer, asked, "Out of What?"

  A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly, he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man expected, that any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

  What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening was God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

  Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly.

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